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DGO Magazine is published by Ballantine Communications Inc., P.O. Drawer A, Durango, CO 81302 Volume 5 Number 41 March 2022

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6 Getting classy with a weed- and sushi-rolling excursion

Back in 2019 B.C. (before COVID), some of the DGO Mag staff hit the road for a short trip to Denver for a weekend of all things cannabis. We’d been looking for a hot minute to find a business that offered cannabis-related activities, and were intrigued by what we found. 18 A trip down Boo Kush lane leads to some strange and wonderful search history

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4-5. Weed news and updates 6. Kush and Kanvases hooks us up 7-8. Get weeducated in the most formal sense 9-11. DIY RSO you can conquer in your kitchen 12-13. Cannabis cooking shows 14-17. Cover story 18. Prohibition Herb review 19. The Green House strain review 20. Edible review 21-25. Ask a couple of potheads 27. Dispensary listings

9 An easy RSO tutorial for our favorite kitchen chemists

Let’s jump directly into it: We want to help you land in the deep end of cannabis pool by making the most powerful medicinal preparation ever—

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From arrests at South Dakota’s legal medical dispensary to Uber going green, here’s what you should know about what’s happening in weed

South Dakota sucks (for medical cannabis patients)

If you’re looking for medical marijuana in South Dakota, your choices are very, very limited. This state only has one medical cannabis dispensary, and while that should be enough to deter you from your (pointless) mission, now customers are inexplicably getting busted for pot at said dispensary.

The Argus Leader reported in January that “officials with the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe said that more than 100 people who’ve been issued tribal medical marijuana identification cards have been arrested since the tribe opened South Dakota’s first-ever cannabis store last year.”

The tribe opened the medical dispensary on July 1, 2021, right when the new South Dakota law officially took effect. There were no other dispensaries that opened on that official start date, however, which created a gray area between the state and tribe.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and her administration have said in the past that the state would not recognize medical cannabis cards issued to individuals who are not members of the tribe — and considering the new arrests that have been occurring, this remains true.

According to the Argus Leader, “the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe has issued about 8,000 medical marijuana cards to tribal and non-tribal members,” and “although several county- and city-level law enforcement agencies and state’s attorneys have eased up on arrests and prosecutions for possession of small amounts of marijuana all together, others, like the Flandreau Police Department are not honoring some tribal-issued medical cards.”

“They’re taking the cards and handing out fines,” Tony Reider, chairman of the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe, said. “But most we don’t know about, because most people are just paying the fines.”

The new arrests are just another blemish on South Dakota’s cannabis record, which has been full of negative marks since 2020, when voters passed a pair of measures to dramatically reform the state’s marijuana laws.

During the 2020 election cycle, voters in South Dakota approved both a constitutional amendment to legalize recreational pot and a measure that allowed for medicinal cannabis. However, the medical law is the only surviving amdendment from that election cycle, as the South Dakota Supreme Court ruled late last year that the recreational amendment was unconstitutional because it violated the state’s “one subject” requirement for constitutional amendments.

Chief Justice Steven Jensen ruled that Amendment A featured “provisions embracing at least three separate subjects, each with distinct objects or purposes,” noting that the state constitution “not only includes a single subject requirement but also directs proponents of a constitutional amendment to prepare an amendment so that the different subjects can be voted on separately.”

The South Dakota Supreme Court decision upheld a lower court’s ruling from earlier in the year. The earlier case predicated on the state’s governor and law enforcement officials challenged the legality of the amendment.

“South Dakota is a place where the rule of law and our Constitution matter, and that’s what today’s decision is about,” Gov. Noem said in a statement following the South Dakota Supreme Court ruling. “We do things right—and how we do things matters just as much as what we are doing. We are still governed by the rule of law. This decision does not affect my Administration’s implementation of the medical cannabis program voters approved in 2020. That program was launched earlier this month, and the first cards have already gone out to eligible South Dakotans.”

According to local news outlets, the ruling means that South Dakota taxpayers will be stuck paying for the $142,000 in legal costs associated with the recreational pot challenge. The governor,